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ManaSota-88 www.manasota88.org. A non-profit 501.c3 public health and environmental organization. Famous And Not-So-Famous Environmental Quotes. “Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called knowledge.”. Thomas Edison. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
ManaSota-88www.manasota88.org
A non-profit 501.c3 public health and environmental organization.
Famous And Not-So-Famous Environmental Quotes
“Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called knowledge.”
Thomas Edison
“Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do.”
Ronald Regan 1981
“Mining is like a search and destroy mission.”
Stewart L. Udall
“Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an
example for the rest of the world to follow”
George H.W. Bush 1989“It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”
George W. Bush 2002
“I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the
interests of the many.”
President Theodore Roosevelt
Horse Creek
Mosaic, the Largest Fertilizer Maker in the United States
Reported quarterly earnings rise of nearly six fold, a 493 percent jump
A year ago, Mosaic shares were at $27, today nearly $114
The average selling price of a ton of phosphate is up 70 percent in one year
Phosphate Economics
Phosphate Net explorer 0.5% Florida’s Gross
State Product Not played a significant
role in Florida’s overall economy since the early 1960’s
Peace River Basin
$4.5 billion in tourism sales
$38 million in Commercial Fishing
$1.8 billion in agriculture
Employment
Fewer than 10,000 jobs state-wide are employed in the Phosphate Industry
More than 1,000,000 are employed in the fishing, tourism, recreational and agricultural industries
Potential Impacts to Regional Watershed Areas
Peace River Total Mine Acres = 104,644 Myakka River Total Mine Acres = 25,238 Total Acres (2006 – 2036) = 129,882 Over the next 30 years, impacts from
130,000 mined acres may endanger the Peace River, Myakka River and Charlotte Harbor
Phosphate Accidental Spills
1945 Polk County – Peace River Spill 1963 Brandon Slime Dam Failure 1967 Mobil Oil Retention Dike Failure 1971 Fort Meade Waste Spill 1994 IMC Global Payne Creek Mine Spill
2004 – Cargill Crop Nutrition Radioactive Clay Waste Spill
Tenoroc Fish Management Area
Tenoroc
Petroleum Contaminants, Elevated Levels of Radionuclides, Arsenic, Cadmium, Lead, and Manganese (known since 1984)
Water quality, fish tissue sampling, human health risk assessment and ecological risk assessment needed
14 Reclaimed Sites in Florida currently are used by the public as Recreational Areas
Retaining Water While Land is Mined
Creating Lakes Where None Existed Before
Clay Settling Areas“Toxic Slime Ponds”
ManaSota-88 Legal Challenges
1980, 1984, 1987 Gardinier Inc. (NPDES Permitting for Gyp Stacks)
1983, Estech, Inc. 1987 Agrico Chemical Company (wetland
mitigation and mining impacts) 1989 IMC Fertilizer Gyp Stack Expansion 1999 Piney Point Phosphate
ManaSota-88 Legal Challenges
2001 IMC Manson-Jenkins 2003 IMC Phosphate – Section 120.68(1)
F.S. 2004 IMC Wingate Mine NPDES Next ???
Phosphogypsum Stacks
Every ton of phosphoric acid produced generates about 5 tons of phosphogypsum
One Billion Tons of Radioactive Waste and Adding 30 Tons a Year
Phosphogypsum has no economic value Alternative uses banned by EPA since 1992 A public health threat for 1,630 years
(radium’s radioactive decay half-life) Radioactive dust, arsenic, lead, cadmium,
chromium, fluoride, zinc, antimony and copper toxins
1995 IMC New Wales 15-story sinkhole
1997 Mulberry Corporation Phosphogypsum Stack Spill - Alafia
River
2001 Piney Point Phosphate Bankruptcy
HBK Holdings, LLC
Bought Piney Point for $4.3 Million FDEP has spent $93 million on closing costs Adjacent to a proposed C & D Landfill Will assume long-term care of the site in
2010
50 years + and still no acceptable disposal methods of PG
FIPR proposes PG for landfill and roadbed uses
No published scientific studies confirming safe uses for PG
ManaSota-88 believes the phosphate industry should not be permitted to externalize the costs of their waste disposal problem at the expense of the public.
FIPR
A. The Florida Institute of Phosphate Research
B. The Development and Research Arm for the Phosphate Industry
C. An agency that has lost its focus and credibility and should be deauthorized and eliminated
D. All of the above
What Can Be Done?
Strengthen Mining Reclamation Rules Phosphate Environmental Impact Statement Enforce Existing Mining Regulations Designate Horse Creek as an Outstanding
Florida Water Reclaim Previous Mined Out Lands Public Involvement – Make Policy makers
realize phosphate is a limited resource of national significance
Industrial Wide EIS Needed
Cumulative Assessment not done since the 1970’s
New study paid for in part by Phosphate Severance Taxes and Fees
Phosphate permitting should link mining, processing and phosphogypsum disposal together
ManaSota-88www.manasota88.org
A non-profit 501.c3 public health and environmental organization.